It’s as if January said ‘hold my beer’ – has this been the most miserable winter yet?

Mud, winter fields

There’s a book in the Little House on the Prairie series called The Long Winter, and I sympathise.

To be fair, Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Long Winter was seven months of pretty much non-stop blizzards, near starvation and burning hay for warmth, so maybe I shouldn’t be moaning about seven weeks of rain – but it hasn’t been fun.

I don’t think January and February would be in many people’s top 10 months of the year for owning horses but this year they seem to have been particularly hideous.